We’re leaving Denver, and starting our road-trip. First stage is at the Rocky Mountains National Park. We left very early, worried to have read everywhere that it was extremely busy in the summer’s weekends.

We stopped at the Bear Meadow Visitor Center for planning our day, then took the bus to reach a starting point of a 6k hike along 3 small lakes. It was raining a little bit, nothing unusual for our kids.

Back to the car, we went to the Junior Rangers center where Sarah, Tim and Hugo earned their Ranger badge.

We then drove in the clouds all the way to the Alpine Visitor Center.

The road back home to Fort Collins was the surprise of the day. A long drive in a narrow valley, ending on a beautiful plain cut by red rock beds. We then drove through the suburbs of Fort Collins, stereotypically american.

The hotel also was surprising, with a giant greenhouse in the lobby, a nice big bedroom. We ate takeaway for diner, on the terrace outside the greenhouse.

And yes, we did miss the world cup final… completely, as we didn’t even have network. We got the result in a text message, 1hr after the game.

Spending the day at Denver Museum of Nature & Science. We’re sunburnt from yesterday (great parenting) so we stay indoor today. We started with the Space Odyssey, then the kids went hunting salmon in the bear’s room.

We had dinosaur for lunch… sort of… ok it was chicken. Kids portions were big enough for 3, we’re slowly getting used to it.

Spending the day at Waterworld. We had to buy Star Wars, Pokemon and Paw Patrol beach towels for the kids. Had to!

Arrived at Denver Airport after a long but ok flight – just a bit of stress in London as connection time was short and our arrival from Oslo 30 min late.

Picked up our rental car, a nice and comfy Jeep, our best friend for our road-trip.